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"But as my voice coach keeps saying, if we actually spoke the way they imagine the Elizabethan voice might have been, we wouldn't be able to understand it."
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"Yes, anally retentive men are my forte!"
Men

"When people come to me and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face the next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off."
Time

"People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities."
People

"People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors."
Family

"I knew all about Edward VIII's abdication, George VI becoming the king and having a stammer, but nothing about how he got rid of it."
Nothing

"Nobody ever said that growing old would be easy. Just having to hold the newspaper out in your forties and then hair growing out of unusual parts of your body in your fifties. It's tough on the ego."
Body

"Within our culture, every school has a swimming pool. We lived on the coast. People swam in the surf. It's a very sporty nation and at that particular time anyone who had an artistic bent was very much an outsider. So if you liked reading or ideas or playing the piano then your dad viewed you as a sissy, basically."
Father

"I die in almost every film I've been in."
Film

"What I appreciated was the fact that the script delved into how Australians were - and still are - condescended to by the English."
Language

"They were saying, 'Keep this under your hat, but Jack Sparrow's going to die in the second movie.' I went, 'You're kidding me. The fans are going to go berserk.'"
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"Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land."
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"Working on the accent helped, enormously. I will tell you that when I brought Michael a correct "British" accent, one that my dialect coach was happy with, he hated it."
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Personal Development

"You are only as good as the coach thinks you are."
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Personal Development

"A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you."
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Personal Development

"Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck."
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Personal Development

"When you coach as long as I did, you can't help but miss those Saturdays - dealing with the players, the game preparation, the challenges, the excitement."
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Personal Development

"The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together."
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Personal Development

"And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you."
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Personal Development

"It's not any one person. It's not any one coach. It's the team."
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Personal Development

"If the coach is good, I don't think a psychologist is needed."
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